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Topic: 10 candles for same-sex marriage (Read 901 times)

Hurray, on this very day, same-sex marriage, in Belgium, turns 10!Weird thing is, even the Christian democrats voted FOR the law, way back when.And weirder still, the French, with their devotion to laicity, STILL don't have same-sex marriage and in fact are having a massive, and rather ugly, debate about it.The right-wing opposition, for instance, has submitted 5000 (yes, five thousand) amendments to the same-sex marriage law that is before the senat right now.[1]

When I get in to it with homophobes, I like to point out how (here in the U.S.A.):

1) We live in a country where a drunken Britney Spears can have her Vegas marriage annulled, less than 55 hours after tying the knot.

2) Individuals such as Elizabeth Taylor can get married eight times, to seven different men.

3) Our so-called religious leaders like the Rev. Jessie Jackson... our televangelists like Jimmy Swaggart and even our former president such as Thomas Jefferson and Bill Clinton can engage in extramarital affairs and still retain their positions and adoration of their supporters.

Then, I conclude by pointing out how those damned heterosexuals have done a pretty fine job making a mockery of the institution of marriage all by their lonesomes.

Funny how the holy-than-thou types never suggest outlawing divorce, what with it breaking the solemn vow made before god "To death do us part"....

« Last Edit: January 30, 2013, 01:44:32 PM by Disciple of Sagan »

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disciple, if they outlawed divorce the murder rate would skyrocket, then maybe, just maybe, we wouldn't have this over population issue! i've married 24 couples so far, none of them gay ones..dangit!! i'm bummed...i wanna go to a big gay wedding and the only way i'll get invited to one is if i'm the minister...my small town only has so many outwardly gay folks, althought we have a kickin transgender/crossdressing convention show up every year, though many of those guys come with their wives lol one day i'll get my chance, and it will be the biggest, most gay wedding ever!